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"Increasingly desperate about the shift in preferences toward Romney..."

It is eerily convenient, isn't it?

Keep in mind what that Journolister said when Obama was in trouble the first time. Pick a Republican, any republican, doesn't matter who it is, and accuse them of racism. They're not above such tactics, by any means.

"The Buzzfeed folks should also be concerned that folks on the right will be less willing to link them in the future, if they’re perceived — as I believe they increasingly are — as lefty agitprop shills."

Aside from the political things, which are always vicious and reliably stupid and utterly hopelessly mangled, they're rather funny, it's the type of content my friends send me all the time. Puppies and such. Most of it I just toss.

Where do you think I got the alien hummingbird 'take me to you feeder' joke? Reddit, that's where. Like 6 pages into their hummingbirds, finally, something different.

But my relatives send the opposite material as reddit, all religious and patriotic, treacly jingoistic preciously Christian, I don't know where they get all that crap, honestly it's wearisome, and never original material either, if only it was something directly out of my sister's mouth, they circulate it to each other through church contacts I think, I don't know anyone else up there on the mailing lists.

Next time... this guy could claim he has discovered something truly treacherous... but upon a cursory internet review his names pop up linked to false flag ops... he might have trouble getting peoples attention.

Leads me to believe... is it possible this Buzz guy in on the take with the Obama campaign?

Ah, who gives a shit? Barack Obama only got elected because of his race. His proxies are telling us we must re-elect him because of his race. (Saw a story yesterday about potential riots if one or the other candidates lose. Yeah, the Mormons are going to trash Salt Lake City if their guy loses. Uh-huh. I bet we see more of that if Obama continues to trail in the polls.)

I went to the Romney rally a few weeks ago in Sarasota FL. Huge happy crowd, and a handful of "protesters" heckling the folks in line, parading the now-cliche' papier-mache' puppet Romney, and playing to every photographer in sight. One feisty "activist" kept cutting into line, finally annoying people enough that one old gent gave the kid something akin to the Vulcan neck-pinch...and of course photographers were there to record it. Before I even got home, the story was already up on Buzzfeed. A thirty-second non-event was their whole story.http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/romney-supporters-clash-with-protesters-in-florida

But my relatives send the opposite material as reddit, all religious and patriotic, treacly jingoistic preciously Christian, I don't know where they get all that crap,

Yesterday, I decided I'd had it with email forwards, which are universally awful. So I emailed the person who sends most of them to me, and said, basically, "These are always ridiculous and wrong. Why do people make up crazy things to forward around instead of forwarding good things around?" Then I collected some images and posts that were worthwhile and emailed them, each as a discreet forward, to that person so that they could be sent around instead of the garbage.

No word yet on whether Political Math can catch on like stories claiming Obama is Muslim.

Someone sent my grandmother an email forward saying that honey and cinnamon cure all sorts of diseases, including heart disease and cancer.

Grandma: "Can this be true? I'm very skeptical."My mother: "No, it's not true that honey and cinnamon cure all those diseases. Some can only be cured by maple syrup and nutmeg, others by Karo and allspice."

From CrackEmcee: ' I am formally requesting to be taken off of your blog roll.'

The rest of the reasonable people can only hope you are serious in this request.

Your anger, belligerence and hatred toward people who disagree with you politically is disturbing and uncalled for especially considering how people like you wrap themselves in the 'Flag of Tolerance'.Your and the Left's, claim of 'tolerance' is truly one of the biggest lies perpetrated on the American public.

"Ann, do you consider it a legitimate threat or an illegitimate threat?"

I think it's a pushback, letting BuzzFeed know that there is a dynamic to the internet and if they do things like that shirt thing (and that Ryan gets testy thing) that people who aren't on the left will stop linking.

Some people criticize me for linking to the NYT.

I link to what's interesting, but I would be inclined to avoid BuzzFeed if I thought they were putting up toxic, unfair material, and I'd approach it with a different attitude if I thought that they weren't fun-loving and varied, if I thought the cool stuff was sugar-coating to a lefty agenda.

As far as Crack asking to be taken off the blogroll, I took that as a serious request. If it was just a joke...

"If there was some code that would block my view of crack's posts, I would buy it."

You know that is one interesting idea for a firefox extension."

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ed, there actually is such an extension: Greasemonkey.One of the commenters over at Protein Wisdom used it to write an app called Trollhammer. It would require Ann to make changes to her website to enable it, but it allows you to not see anyone's comments -- and bring them back if you think they've learned better.

(Turns to Crack Emcee) Dude, you used to express anger sometimes, but it generally seemed to be at someone who deserved it and for a sensible reason which you succinctly spelled out. But now it's coming across as a reflexive or even defensive snarl. What's up?